I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~Chinese Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth. ~Suze Orman
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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